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Daily Archives: April 2nd, 2014

Rural states cry foul

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

The Boston Globe reports that congress critters from rural states are clamoring to expand an already existing program designed to shift NIH research grants away from deserving populated states (such as the Globe's Massachusetts) to rural states that could not win the grants on their own. “It’s hard to compete against MIT or Harvard… . […]

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Spreading slums throughout the land

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

We usually consider slums to be an urban phenomenon, with slum dwellings usually consisting of run down apartment buildings. But, thanks to Wall Street and the wonders of securitization, slums may be coming to a previously middle class, single family neighborhood near you: One of the reasons many investors have been skeptical of the way […]

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